The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-07-22
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Nine. Marie Dronsart, a French
woman, has written a biography of
Bismarck in three volumes.
Mrs. Ellen Wood, the authoress.
left personal estate to the value of
f36,000 In her case noYel-writing
paid.
Haggard's best novel has had a
curious experience in an English
public library. king solomon's
Mines is placed among the works on
minerology.
Archduchess Marie Valerie Of
Austria, who is betrothed to the heir
presumptive to the crown of Saxony,
has literary tastes and is a frequent
contributor to German magazines.
Missionaries have done more for
the literary world than all the socie-
ties and institutions of the earth. In
the past eighty years they have formed
and reduced to writing over forty
languages. Public Opinion.
-Junius S. Morgan, the London
banker, has offered to give Joshus
Reynolds to the Metropolitan Muse UNI
in New York. This painting repre-
sents s'three gentlemen, beass the
date $780," and is valued at $50, 1000.
Herbert Spencer is working on his
autobiography, although the state of
his health does not permit him to give
this work more than short time each
day. He is scarcely able to see any
visitors save intimate friends. The
least unusual excitement aggravates
his symptoms, and especially his sleep
lessness. -Springtfeld Republican.
There are now 692newspapers pub
lished in Switzerland, against All in
1872, and 576 in 1888. Of these 692,
70 are published six times or more DUR
ing the week, POI from two to five
times, 1879 once, 100 less than once.
and % have no regular publishing day,
appearing only occasionally. Berne
publishes the largest number, 113, the
next being Zurich, with SO.
Frayne, The professional shot, who
in 1882 killed his betrothed, who was
holding ~. apple on her head as tar
get, and at another time accidentally
shot an assistant, recently had mar
row escape himself from death. A lion
in his menagerie escaped and was de-
vouring a valuable horse. Frayne las
sooed it and succeeded in drawing it
back to its cage with no other damage
to himself than a lacerated arm. Phil
GdelphiG Press.
Among the now few survivors of
Waterloo is Lord Albemarle, who en-
tered the English army on April 4,
1915, and served on June IS with the
old Fourteenth Foot. He retired upon
half-pay as Major, became Major
General October 26. 1858, and a GEN.
eral February 7, 1874. The other sur
vivor whose name in the Army List is
General George Whichcote. This vet
eran soldier received his commission
in January, 1911, and served in the
Peninsula with the Fifty-second Light
Infantry.
1t is related that Eugene Delacroix,
the famous painter, thinking that the
head OF Baron James Rothschild would
make splendid head for began,
asked the eminent fnancier to sit as
model. Consent was granted. While
the artist was engaged on the canvas
one of the pupils entered and told
Delacroix that that was an ideal beg
gar. When Delacroix was not looking
the pupil, in a good-hearted manner,
put coin in Rothschild's hand, for
which the banker nodded his thanks.
He learned that the young painter had
very little money, and so he wrote him
that the coin he had given him had
borne interest, and that il he called at
the Rothschih ba mixing house he would
receive 10, 900 francs.